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LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — The crash that killed journalist Michael Hastings was ruled an accident by police, but conspiracy theories continued to circulate on Friday. Hastings, 33, was killed in a fiery solo-vehicle crash in Hancock Park early Tuesday morning. He was best known for a 2010 Rolling Stone article that led to the resignation…

WASHINGTON — The CEO of the Associated Press told an audience Wednesday that the Department of Justice has succeeded in muzzling government employees from talking to AP reporters in the weeks since the seizure of AP phone records was revealed. “What I learned from our journalists should alarm everyone in this room and I think…

Edward Snowden is a national hero and should be immediately issued a a full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA surveillance programs. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD Tags: cia, criminal intel agencies, fbi, nsa

What Edward Snowden has done is an amazingly brave and courageous act of civil disobedience. Like me, he became discomforted by what he was exposed to and what he saw: the industrial-scale systematic surveillance that is scooping up vast amounts of information not only around the world but in the United States, in direct violation…

Lawmakers demanded the briefings after revelations last week about the NSA’s collection of phone records and Internet data, and Sanchez said lawmakers were “astounded” by what they heard. “I think it’s just broader than most people even realize, and I think that’s, in one way, what astounded most of us, too,” Sanchez said of the…

If we can believe the latest poll issued by the Pew Research Center, most Americans believe the Fourth Amendment and the Bill of Rights should not get in the way of government surveillance and tracking down terrorists. Tags: nsa

Glenn Greenwald is the reporter who broke the story on the NSA spy system called Prism. He sounds like he’s channeling Rothbard in this interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJjMWeWYMY4#! You can listen to the full interview with Edward Snowden, the NSA worker who leaked the files, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z99qFwsDmU Tags: cia, criminal intel agencies, fbi, nsa, Police State

“The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife’s phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit…